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If groklaw is correct, and this is tantamount to evidence disposal, then IBM's lawyers should be all over this. I rarely side with IBM these days, but I'm really rooting for them to do the right thing (vaporize SCO).
Yes, but it's not just "kinda versatile". It can replace just about every petroleum product out there. Food, clothing, building materials, plastics, paper, blah, blah blah...
Hemp for victory. We should be growing it here...not importing it from Canada.
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from the there-is-but-one-way dept.
Nerdfest writes "Venturebeat is reporting that a successfully funded Kickstarter project for a portable phone charger that works with both Apple and Android devices has been canceled because Apple wouldn't let the creators license its Lightning connector. Quoting: 'Edison Junior, the technology and design lab behind the POP portable power station, is returning the full $139,170 in funding it received from Kickstarter backers to develop the device. Unfortunately, Apple has refused to give the project permission to license the Lightning charger in a device that includes multiple charging options. ... "We didn’t get a yes or a no up front," Siminoff said. "But as we kept going back and forth it was clear that it was getting harder. Then, when we saw that they weren’t even going to allow a Lightning connector and a 30-pin connector together, we knew it was over." He also said that, while Apple is a private company and can do whatever it wishes, it should watch out. "When you do things that are bad for the customer I think it will be bad for them.”''"Update: 12/21 22:16 GMT by S: Apple has relented. A spokesman for the company told Ars, "Our technical specifications provide clear guidelines for developing accessories and they are available to MFi licensees for free. We support accessories that integrate USB and Lightning connectors, but there were technical issues that prevented accessories from integrating 30-pin and Lightning connectors so our guidelines did not allow this. We have been working to resolve this and have updated our guidelines to allow accessories to integrate both 30-pin and Lightning connectors to support charging."
Which begs the question: How many would have been saved if there had been an armed, law-abiding citizen there to take the gunman down before the authorities arrived?